This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
5/3/2022
Student life and mental health, gender equity, medical school curricula, and faculty recruitment are just some of the areas of change likely if some states are able to ban abortion.
Source: Forbes
5/1/2022
Guston's blunt imagery, including Ku Klux Klan figures, arguably interrogates his complicity as a white artist in ongoing racism. Is it offensive to contemporary museum audiences?
Source: WMAR
4/28/2022
"A month before the Civil War formally ended, a 20-year-old Black woman and prolific writer named Edmonia Highgate came from upstate New York to Harford County to launch a school for former slaves."
Source: Mississippi Free Press
4/29/2022
A Natchez barbershop will be recognized as the meeting place of the group organized for Black community self-defense against racist terrorism.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
5/1/2022
Lyn Hughes was shocked that the public history of Chicago's Pullman factory and surrounding neighborhood overlooked the role of African American workers – who became a key core of civil rights activism.
Source: Newsweek
5/1/2022
The outspoken and media-friendly wife of Attorney General John Mitchell had warned reporters of CREEP "dirty tricks" before the infamous burglary. After, keeping her from talking to reporters was the first battle of the coverup.
Source: CNN
4/29/2022
The Apple+ series, based in a fictionalized narrative of Korean immigration to Japan, concludes with interview footage of eight women, now all more than 90 years old, who lived this history.
Source: The Atlantic
4/30/2022
by Katie Stallard
"As Putin is currently demonstrating, questionable historical narratives in faraway autocracies are a problem for democracies too."
Source: PEN America
4/28/2022
The failure of states to offer precise guidance for which lessons are acceptable and which aren't suggests that "divisive concepts" laws and other legislation are intended to chill teachers' ability to discuss politically sensitive subjects.
Source: NPR
5/2/2022
Residual lead from paint and industry remains present in and around enough homes to make chronic, low-level poisoning an ongoing concern.
Source: James Madison's Montpelier
4/27/2022
The Montpelier Foundation board argues that the organization representing the descendants of those enslaved at James Madison's estate has rejected good faith cooperation in order to score political points in the latest escalation of the battle over how the Founder's relationship to slavery should be portrayed.
Source: The Baffler
4/25/2022
By condemning the big projects Moses favored, planners excuse their own involvement in perpetuating the idea that some neighborhoods and some residents are more valuable than others.
Source: Dissent
4/27/2022
by Meaghan Winter
It was a strategic mistake for abortion rights advocates to emphasize the right to individual choice instead of the vast issues of economic justice, workforce quality, educational equity and personal safety that are impacted by whether women can control their own reproduction.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
4/26/2022
A survey of recent legislation affecting the teaching of "divisive concepts" in history and other courses, plus changes to what kinds of diversity trainings are required or permitted in multiple states.
Source: The New Republic
4/21/2022
Congress is entitled under the Amendment to strip states of representation if they don't maintain a republican form of government. Do proposed voting rights restrictions and other red-state legislation qualify?
Source: Truthout
4/22/2022
Our society has developed and institutionalized a set of public rituals of disbelief and incredulity around mass shootings that direct anger and pain away from organizing and let politicians off the hook.
Source: Washingtonian
4/25/2022
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden expressed gratitude to Simon's widow Elaine Joyce Simon for the donation, which enhances the library's holdings in performance arts and ensures future researchers will be able to access his work.
Source: Los Angeles Times
4/26/2022
The house of the actor and his wife Brooke Hayward was a gathering place of fertile movements in film, arts and music that made the 1960s.
Source: The Atlantic
4/25/2022
by Evelyn Douek
Musk is delusional if he thinks that Twitter can function without moderation. The problem this highlights is the ability of a small number of billionaires to make the decisions that shape the contemporary public sphere.
Source: Boston Review
4/21/2022
by Nate File
"The mutual aid movement here is steeped in history and working to build the city that politicians and private actors have promised for decades but failed to deliver."
